Your oral health is important and your bodily bacteria keep you healthy [fights tinea too].
Specifically your saliva coats green leafy veges with an enzyme your body can't manufacture. There is a lot of nitrate in your lettice and these enzymes convert it into nitritous oxide NO. I have spoken before of the NO-ONO cycle researched by Prof Martin Pell. Anyway this process aids controlling BP. By reducing free radicals it is good for you in many ways including reducing clogging of arteries.
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